@zillaman101 @thomasmccormack Actually, go buy Rainbow Six (not anything made by Ubi) and fire up an old computer and play that instead. Vegas is worlds apart from the game that won GOTY honors. Failing that, Ghost Recon, another GOTY winner, is a good bet too.

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Sure he made lots of money on licensing his name, that doesn't mean the games are worth a damn.

As I stated elsewhere and Jonmar states here, games with his name meant something. Notice that R6 and GR as made by RSE won GOTY awards. Nothing made by Ubisoft, or since they bought RSE, carrying the TC name hasn't. That should tell someone something.

RIP Tom. I have read all of his Ryanverse novels and a couple of Op-Center and maybe one Net Force though those two series were not written by him. The Ryanverse books were great. I was reading Rainbow Six (first edition hardcover) and one day, was reading the local paper and read that there was a video game to go with it. I stated right then that I would buy a PC just so I could play that game.

What a blast, especially playing on Mplayer. The SP had features not seen in any game previously nor seen since (real world time for healing and the loss of a team member if killed on a mission). I miss that type of game. Heck, the planning stage of R6/RS were the game. The action took all of 3 or 4 minutes if you set up your mission right.

The last game Tom Clancy really had any input in was Splinter Cell and maybe Pandora Tomorrow. Everything else is from Ubisoft.

Rainbow Six was self published by RSE as well as Rogue Spear, Urban Ops and Covert Operations Essentials. It wasn't until Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear: Black Thorn that Ubisoft developed and published a Rainbow Six game. Ubi actually used the RSE engine (though didn't optimize everything very well) for it before moving to UE2 for Raven Shield.

Did Metal Gear Solid win any Game of the Year awards? Rainbow Six did.

Rainbow Six was based on the book though there are some differences. Both the book and the game were released in August of 1998 though the game was finished before the book was thus the two different endings between the two.

Rainbow Six actually defined a genre, sadly, that genre barely exists anymore though there is hope.

It's a shame that Ubisoft removed that from the franchise. The planning stage really made the game what it was.

No as Clancy licensed the use of his name to Ubisoft and they can use his name anyway they want. Sadly.

You should have played Rainbow Six. It is vastly different from Vegas and is what actually defined the Tac-Sim and is now a tacticool shooter instead of a Tac-Sim.